According to Reuters, Okta, a certification company used by thousands of organizations around the world, is investigating news of potential breaches. This disclosure is from Okta’s internal system, including one in which the hacking group Lapsus $ posted a screenshot on the Telegram channel, which appears to show Okta’s Slack channel, and one with a Cloudflare interface. Because it claims.
Hacking Okta can have a significant impact on businesses, universities, and government agencies that rely on Okta to authenticate user access to internal systems.
Lapsus $ claims to have been able to access Okta’s system for two months on its Telegram channel, but states that its focus is “only Okta customers.” The Wall Street Journal states in a recent filing that Okta has more than 15,000 customers worldwide. We list Peloton, Sonos, T-Mobile, FCC, etc. as customers on our website.
In a statement sent to The Verge, Okta spokesman Chris Hollis downplayed the incident, stating that Okta had not found evidence of an ongoing attack. “In late January 2022, Okta detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third-party customer support engineer working on one of the sub-processors. The problem was investigated and contained by the sub-processor.” Hollis. Said. “I think the screenshots shared online are related to this January event.”
“According to previous investigations, there is no evidence of continued malicious activity other than the activity detected in January,” Hollis continues. However, if you write to the Telegram channel, Suggested by Lapsus $ I was able to access it for several months.
This is the third attempt to share the 5th to 8th photos. LAPSUS $ displayed so much sensitive and user information that some could not be censored.
Attached photos 5-8 below. pic.twitter.com/KGlI3TlCqT
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Lapsus $ is Nvidia, Samsung, MicrosoftAnd Ubisoft steals hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive data in some cases.